He lifts and presses his fingers in an intricate play of motion and sound, and creates a masterpiece of words in beautiful imagery. The stories speak of pain and love, hard truths and beautiful fantasies, and he sends them into the world with high hopes. He is proud of them. They are like his children and he is setting them free to make their own way.
Perhaps his hopes, his expectations, were too high.
The current world is not kind to beautiful things. Sometimes it breaks them up and tears them down. Sometimes it merely laughs for all the wrong reasons. Occasionally, and worst of all, the world turns its back on beauty, ignoring it and letting it wither away unto death.
“Such is the sad state of our times,” the talking heads cluck before giggling about the antics of the latest internet celebrity wearing a toilet seat necklace and upside-down pants. “What can you do? Pander to the lowest common denominator of popular culture or face the torturous agony of certain irrelevance.”
Though, in truth, the talking heads would never speak so eloquently. This he knows just as he knows his words, his children, are going to struggle once they leave him. That, however, doesn’t make it any less necessary for them to be set free. There is risk, but only with risk is there the chance for greatest success.
Perhaps his hopes, his expectations, weren’t too high.
He lifts and presses his fingers in an intricate balance of characters and worlds, spun together for the entertainment of those brave enough to read more than the standard faire provided by the money driven words industry. There was no profit formula. There was no demand for demographics or tired plot lines. But, there was plenty of hope.
After all, it costs nothing to hope.
upside down pants… I need me some of those…
We all do!
get on that!
I’ll let you know as soon as I have a test product. I’m thinking bell bottom waist and belted ankles.
that goes without saying
Hmm. Too easy then? Button fly legs, with a cuffed waistline?
keep trying
Tough crowd
Um…
Pleated waistline, footy style pajama bottom legs with buttons and zippers for foot removal around the ankles.
you know I loves me my footy pj’s
Beautiful words. You are something of a connoisseur’s choice, methinks 🙂
Kind of you to think (and say) so.
Hope is the most expensive option, but the least expensive necessity. Well said.
Well said, indeed.
In the midst of what I’m going through, this is eerily timely…but life is funny like that.
Life is funny like that. It’s a big little world. We are never alone in our struggles and doubts.
As a mutual blogger friend said at the end of every post, there is hope. So trying to believe that. You wrote this very eloquently.
There is hope. And that is a good thing.
Sometimes hope costs people a lot of money
Money isn’t everything, despite all who clamor that it is. I’d rather be penniless and have hope, than rich and hopeless.
oh I love this one 🙂
Hooray! Thank you!